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Daily Local & Regional NewsWatch
Daily News Digest
from LA Police Protective League
September 12, 2019 |
Law Enforcement News
Arraignment Delayed For Two Men Charged In Off-Duty LAPD Officer's Killing
Two reputed gang members were ordered Wednesday to remain jailed without bail while awaiting arraignment on a capital murder charge stemming from the shooting of an off-duty Los Angeles police officer amid what investigators called a 90-minute crime spree that included a separate attempted murder. Cristian Facundo, 20, of Murrieta, and Francisco Talamantes III, 24, of Temecula, are due back in a downtown Los Angeles courtroom for arraignment Nov. 4 in connection with the July 27 death of Officer Juan Jose Diaz, 24, who had been with the Los Angeles Police Department for about two years. Diaz was shot around 1 a.m. outside a taco stand near Avenue 26 and Artesian Street in Lincoln Heights, where he had gone with his girlfriend and her two brothers. The murder charge includes the special circumstance allegation of murder by an active member of a street gang. Prosecutors will decide later whether to seek the death penalty against the two, who are also charged with two counts of attempted murder.
MyNewsLA.com |
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Deaths Of 9/11 First Responders From Ground Zero-Related Illnesses Are On The Rise
Like most first responders, former New York City detective Tom Frey is a master of understatement — even when it comes to talking about the World Trade Center terror attacks on 9/11, the most devastating assignment of his life. “We were going down there, just trying to find anyone who was alive,” he says of the hours and days that followed the collapse of the towering skyscrapers in Lower Manhattan. “We were digging in, moving concrete with our hands, basically just trying to find anyone, anybody who was alive. I was never lucky enough to find a survivor, but we did all we could.” Instead, Frey found himself tending to the dead, sifting through debris brought to a Staten Island landfill looking for any trace of evidence that could shed light on the horrific attack. He searched for plane parts and human remains, all parts of a landscape rendered unrecognizable by pulverizing destruction and a pervasive layer of gray dust. “On the job, I've seen plane crashes, people jumping out of windows, hanging themselves, subways derailed — all sorts of things. But you're never prepared for something like this,” Frey says. America would never be the same. Neither would Tom Frey.
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Deputy City Attorney Kills Wife, Son, Self At Northridge Home: LAPD
A Los Angeles deputy city attorney fatally shot his wife and 19-year-old son before turning the gun on himself at the family's Northridge home on Wednesday morning, authorities said. Eric Lertzman, his wife Sandra Lertzman, and their 19-year-old son Michael Lertzman son were found dead inside the home Feuer said, according to the Los Angeles Police Department. Officers were dispatched to the 9600 block of Vanalden Avenue around 9 a.m. after receiving a call of a shooting in progress, according to Los Angeles Police Department Lt. Mike Kozak said. When they arrived at the house, officers located three victims, all apparently deceased, according to Kozak. The victims all had gunshot wounds; police recovered at least two handguns at the scene, according to LAPD. A fourth person inside the home – a woman in her 20s – managed to escape and was uninjured, the lieutenant said.
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Police Investigate Shooting At South L.A. Apartment Complex
Police were looking for the man who fired shots at an apartment complex in South Los Angeles on Wednesday morning. The shooting occurred at 4000 Santa Rosalia Drive in South L.A.'s Baldwin Village neighborhood located near the intersection of Buckingham Road and Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard. Police say the suspect broke into the apartment complex around 9:20 p.m. Tuesday night. The man had been banned from the building and had a restraining order against him. He returned to the apartment complex on Wednesday morning around 5:40 p.m. with a gun. The gunman fired five shots at a wall within the complex before he left the scene, police said. No injuries were reported. The suspect remains on the loose.
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Suspected Cosmetics And Watch Counterfeiter Arrested By LAPD
A 26-year-old La Habra man is scheduled to appear in court Thursday to face charges of selling hundreds of thousands of dollars in counterfeit merchandise on eBay and other online platforms. Police arrested Connor Blount Tuesday after investigators conducted several undercover buys and surveillance, then served search warrants at locations in La Habra and Fullerton, the Los Angeles Police Department said in a statement. An investigation determined Blount was a major distributor in Los Angeles County and had over 30 accounts on eBay “deceiving unknowingly consumers of counterfeit name brand facial cosmetics,” the LAPD statement said. None of the counterfeit items had been tested to meet U.S. safety guidelines and “posed a risk to anyone using the products,” the department said. Officers recovered approximately $100,000 in cash and over $250,000 in counterfeit merchandise, including Yeti mugs, name-brand cosmetics and G-Shock watches, police said.
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Surgical Assistant Suspected Of Identity Theft Scheme At Southern California Hospitals
A man who worked as a surgical assistant has been arrested on suspicion of stealing identities, financial data, and money from employees and patients while working at several Los Angeles area hospitals, law enforcement sources told NBCLA. James Shannon, also known as James Sannon and other aliases, was being held in lieu of $1.1-million bail. He was booked Tuesday afternoon by LAPD financial crimes detectives, according to police records. Shannon, 36, is suspected of stealing from, "his neighbors, co-workers, and others," according to a social media post by the LAPD. At the time of the alleged offenses in LA Shannon was wanted on a felony identity theft case in San Bernardino County, where he was accused of using a stolen ID to try to lease an apartment, according to the Chino Police Department.
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$560,000 Worth Of Fake NBA Championship Rings Seized At LAX
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers at Los Angeles International Airport recently seized 28 counterfeit NBA championship rings that were reportedly being shipped to the U.S. with the apparent intent to be sold as a collection. If genuine, the seized rings would have had an estimated retail price of $560,000. CBP officers discovered the rings while conducting an enforcement exam on a shipment arriving from China with a final destination in Arizona. The rings were found inside of a wooden box, CBP officials said. Import specialists confirmed that the designs and wordmarks were in violation of the Cleveland Cavaliers, San Antonio Spurs, Boston Celtics, Los Angeles Lakers, Detroit Pistons, Miami Heat, Dallas Mavericks, Houston Rockets, Chicago Bulls, Denver Nuggets, Golden State Warriors, Air Jordan and NBA trophy design protected trademarks. Legitimate NBA championship ring prices range between $10,000 and $40,000 and in some cases over $200,000.
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California Cold Case Solved Through DNA, Genealogy DNA and genetic genealogy led police to solve a cold case and identify a now-deceased man who kidnapped and killed an 11-year-old girl in Southern California nearly 47 years ago, authorities said. Terri Lynn Hollis disappeared from her Torrance home on Thanksgiving in 1972. Her body, clad only in a T-shirt, was found the next day by fishermen on a cliff below the Pacific Coast Highway in Oxnard. Authorities exhumed the body of Jake Edward Brown, who died in Arizona in 2003, to confirm that his DNA was a match to the evidence, Irvine said. Brown had been arrested in connection with two rape cases that occurred after Hollis' death. "This crime is what nightmares are made of, and no family should ever have to go through such a tragedy," Torrance Police Chief Eve Irvine said Wednesday at a news conference. Randy Hollis, her brother, was 16 at the time and said he still mourns every Thanksgiving. "When you think about it, 47 years, it's amazing that we've come to this day," he said. "I only wish that my parents were still alive to see this."
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California Bill To Clamp Down On Semiautomatic Rifles Heads For Vote This Week
Californians would be barred from buying more than one semiautomatic rifle a month and those weapons would be off-limits to people younger than 21 under a bill set for a final vote in the Legislature this week. The restrictions are being sought by state Sen. Anthony Portantino (D-La Cañada Flintridge), who noted that such weapons have been used in mass shootings, including an April attack on the Chabad of Poway by a 19-year-old man who killed one person and injured three others. Portantino's bill originally would have limited purchases of all long guns to one every 30 days, but he decided to exclude shotguns and some rifles that are popular with hunters and instead focus the restriction on semiautomatic rifles. “That's the weapon of choice over and over again” for mass shooters, Portantino said to explain why he narrowed the bill to those guns. “We are focusing on what we think is the most heinous gun that is causing most of the activity.”
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Public Safety News
Body Found Next To Power Lines In Griffith Park
A man's body was found next to a power line in Griffith Park just before 1 p.m. Wednesday. Initial reports stated that the suspected cause of death was electrocution, but it had not been determined, according to the Los Angeles Fire Department. A helicopter was originally brought in to hoist the body out, but it was deemed too dangerous due to the steep grade in the remote location and the high-voltage wires above it. Ground crews were assessing the rugged terrain for the most effective removal of the victim. The circumstances surrounding the incident were unknown.
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LA 9/11 Memories Bring Sobering Ceremonies 18 Years After Attacks
Police and fire officials gathered with elected leaders and residents at events across the Southland Wednesday to commemorate the 18th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people. In Los Angeles, a traditional gathering was held at the city fire department's Frank Hotchkin Memorial Training Center in Elysian Park. The ceremony is held each year in a plaza that includes a 23-ton section of metal recovered from the World Trade Center, which was destroyed in the attack. The metal is the largest remnant of the World Trade Center outside New York City. “We all for the rest of our lives — just as past generations can cite where they were when President Kennedy was killed, when Martin Luther King was assassinated — we all know where we were on 9-11,” Mayor Eric Garcetti said during the event. “I was about four blocks away living in my home when my future and now mother-in-law called to say turn on the TV. A bright Tuesday morning full of American possibility turned dark with terror."
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Local Government News
LA Council Votes To Turn Playground Into Homeless Housing Site
The Los Angeles City Council voted Wednesday to place a permanent supportive housing project on land used as a therapeutic playground by an Echo Park nonprofit, which strongly opposed the council's action. El Centro del Pueblo claims a permanent supportive housing complex would adversely affect its mission, which is to give youth a safe space and provide gang intervention and therapy services. But City Councilman Mitch O'Farrell said the housing project is desperately needed. “Homelessness is not an issue; it is the issue facing our city and county,” said O'Farrell, who proposed the land use change. “I take this calamity very seriously.” The city rents the land to El Centro del Pueblo for about $7,000 annually, but the lease agreement expired in November and is now month-to-month. Wednesday's council vote gives the city's Housing and Community Investment Department authority over the land. El Centro del Pueblo serves many Latino and minority children, according to its supporters.
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L.A. City Councilman Wants To Appoint Homeless People To Advisory Commission
A Los Angeles City Councilman proposed Wednesday a new approach to addressing the city's homeless crisis, suggesting the city create an advisory board composed of the very people affected by the issue — the currently or recently homeless. “We set ourselves up for failure if we do not take into account the experience of people who have been homeless,” Councilman Mike Bonin said. “Programs that sound good on paper or in a City Council meeting may not work given the complexities of being without housing. We need to be listening to the people who can tell us if the programs taxpayers are paying for are working as intended.” The panel would be modeled after other city advisory commissions and would provide expert and real-world experience to help guide city actions on homelessness.
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